The Villa of Secrets

Sunset Pilates in the garden seemed like the ideal way to round off the day. Despite everything, Cleo felt her body relaxing into the moment and for a while, she almost forgot about Erica and the texts.

She realised she was starting to get into the ‘clean eating’ routine, too, and was rather looking forward to another healthy supper bursting with nutritious ingredients she rarely used at home.

On the company website she’d seen fresh figs on the menu, plus vegetable spaghettini, dried cranberries, quinoa, sea bream, edamame beans, sunflower seeds, tahini and many more unusual foods besides.

Already, Mark had also treated the guests to two delicious dressings Cleo had never tried before: spicy red pepper made with cashew nuts, and lime and sesame. She must ask him for the recipes to take back home.